Our Understanding of Autism Across the Spectrum

Professor Happe is Director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London.

She studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford, before completing her PhD on autism and working as a research scientist at the MRC Cognitive Development Unit, University College London (UCL). In 2008 she became Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the IoP, where her research focuses on Autism Spectrum Disorders. She has conducted research into the neuro-cognitive basis of typical and atypical social cognition. She is also actively engaged in studies of abilities and assets in people with autism, and their relation to detail-focused perceptual and cognitive style. As well as cognitive methods, her research has involved functional imaging, studies of acquired brain lesions, family studies of the broader phenotype, and behaviour genetic methods.

Professor Happe was President of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) from 2013-2015 and remains on the board as past-President until 2017.

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